HOUSE BILL 261

50th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2012

INTRODUCED BY

Richard D. Vigil

AN ACT

RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSES; PROVIDING FOR LIMITED RETESTING WITHIN A SIX-MONTH PERIOD FOR THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS TEST.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. Section 66-5-60 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1989, Chapter 14, Section 9, as amended) is amended to read:

     "66-5-60. COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE--QUALIFICATIONS--STANDARDS.--

          A. The division shall not issue a commercial driver's license to a person unless that person can establish that New Mexico is the person's state of domicile and has passed a knowledge and skills test for driving a commercial motor vehicle and, for related endorsements, has passed a medical fitness test and has satisfied any other requirements of the New Mexico Commercial Driver's License Act.

          B. The division may authorize a person, including an agency of this or another state, an employer, a private driver-training facility or other private institution or a department, agency or instrumentality of local government to administer the skills test specified by this section.

          C. A commercial driver's license applicant shall [not] take a knowledge and skills test specified in this section [more than three times within one year]. An applicant that does not pass the test may repeat the test as often as the applicant chooses; provided that if the applicant's score is fifty percent or less of the score required to pass the test, the applicant shall not repeat the test for at least twenty-four hours.

          D. If the department determines that a commercial driver's license applicant has committed an offense in taking a test specified in this section, the division shall not issue a commercial driver's license to that applicant within one year of the department's determination."

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